Elon Musk's net worth has increased by 36.2 billion dollars, approximately 11 thousand billion forints, in a single day.
Elon Musk is already the richest man in the world, and the world-famous Hertz car rental deal has pushed the Tesla founder's fortune even higher. Musk's fortune shot up when it was revealed that Hertz Global Holdings, one of the world's oldest and largest car rental companies, had bought 100,000 Tesla Model 3 gave up order. With this order, Tesla's market value and Elon Musk's estimated wealth skyrocketed.
After Musk's fortune grew by $36.2 in a single day, he managed to beat the record of the previous record holder, Chinese businessman Zhong Shanshan, who had previously managed to increase his fortune by $32 billion in one day. A Bloomberg indexe according to Musk currently has a net worth of $292 billion, $96 billion more than the next richest man after him, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.
The investment bank Morgan Stanley recently reported that it will soon have three zeros may increase the wealth of the South African-born American billionaire. Adam Jones, a senior analyst at the bank, said that SpaceX, a space exploration company, could bring in a staggering amount of money for Musk in the near future, and could be the world's most valuable company, beating Tesla. If the prediction comes true, Musk will be the first private entrepreneur in the world to call himself a billionaire, or a thousand billionaire.
